User Moderation Policy Explained

As a community we need to commit to self-moderate. Trolls and shitposters often take advantage of the free speech environment afforded by minimal moderation to brigade us with troll attempts and shitposts. Harassing with shitpost brigades was (and is) one of the techniques employed by SRS on that other site. Our policy is not to delete these posts or ban these users, so we need the rest of the users to use their votes. Trolls will get tired if the only response they receive in here is downvotes. So sort by "New" and downvote all the troll and shitpost threads, then sort by "Hot" to browse the sub. Important threads will always be stickied

Adspam, Copypasta (duplicate posts and/or duplicate comments within the same thread), Dox, and Porn (exposed breasts/genitalia/anus/explicit sex acts) will be removed by the mod team. We will also remove posts that hijack web browsers in any way.

This sub is for documenting the attempts to drag Voat down into the mud by various censorship, advertising or shilling groups. One of our main goals is preventing the spread of PC-Driven Censorship to Voat. We watched self-righteous elitist powermods destroy the free speech environment that once existed on reddit. We will not allow that to happen to Voat.

The primary way to defend our free speech platform is to confront censorship when we see it.

If you feel you have been the victim of censorship, try PMing the mod to see if it was a misunderstanding of some kind. If this does not work, make a thread in here. Provide a link to the thread or relevant modlog. Ping the offending mod in a comment stating the issue. We will do everything we can to resolve the issue.

I'm done with Voat because I can't stand having to make a new account everytime I want to comment. One single downvote is enough to drive a new account into account restrictions and once an account has been driven into account restrictions the account can never post or comment again.

So if people don't like what you're saying they can literally shut down your account with one single downvote. This isn't free speech.

How is it free speech when speaking freely gets my account shut down?

I'm not going to keep making new accounts everytime I want to say something. This is bullshit. If the userbase is going to sit around and tolerate this kind of censorship than you're not people I want to hear my words anyways.

This site has declined too much for me and now I'm done. The traffic has dipped so low that it's not even worth forcing my presence either. There aren't enough people here to make it worth the effort anymore.

So go ahead. Enjoy the brigades and peer censorship. I'm fucking done. It's not worth the effort for me anymore, especially not to reach a only few hundred people.

If this community doesn't see a problem with downvotes locking out accounts than I'm fucking gone.

Seriously, I'm officially retiring and this is my last submission. I don't enjoy having a presence on here anymore. The site is all largely shills and brigaders.

He's tried that in the past. His writing style is pretty unique, and he usually gets identified as soon as he starts spamming the usual bullshit (if someone hasn't figured it out sooner from digging into some early posts by the accounts.

It's amazing how often he shows how much he misunderstands this concept. Free speech is where the controlling entities (mods/admins) do not shut you down, not where the people that don't want to hear your message change the channel/downvote

It's like getting his show canceled because nobody tuned in, and every channel flip past it was a downvote.